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Title: | Classifiers of Mandarin alphabetical words with character-alphabet structure | Authors: | Zhao, X Hsu, YY Huang, CR |
Issue Date: | 2024 | Source: | Lecture notes in computer science (including subseries Lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics), 2024, v. 14514, p. 130-145 | Abstract: | Mandarin alphabetical words (MAWs) refer to the code-mixing of Romanized letters and characters such as X光 ‘X-ray’ in the Mandarin lexicon. Previous studies have mainly focused on MAWs’ formation but lacked empirical evidence regarding their morpho-syntactic behaviours. Classifiers have been used to infer nominals’ semantic properties and characteristics. An intriguing yet less explored issue is the classifier-selection pattern of MAWs and MAWs’ morpho-syntactic idiosyncrasies. We adopt a corpus-based approach to handle this issue. Assuming that a MAW’s classifier is motivated by the head of that MAW, we hypothesize that when a MAW is integrated into the Mandarin lexicon, its dominant classifiers will be the semantically more specific ones and not the neutral classifier. We show that MAWs share a dominant compounding structure in Mandarin and that MAW's classifier is decided by that head even when the head is represented by alphabets. | Keywords: | Classifiers Code-mixing Corpus-based approach Mandarin Alphabetical Words |
Publisher: | Springer | Journal: | Lecture notes in computer science (including subseries Lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics) | ISSN: | 0302-9743 | EISSN: | 1611-3349 | DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_11 |
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